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3DPrinting
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It's getting a lot better. It reminds me of how Blender took off. I've been messing with it and just updated to 1.0. I think it has a lot of work left for casual user onboarding, but the bugs are less and the crashes less common than ever. It's getting there. Hopefully the foundation they set with 1.0 will propel them into the future.
When getting into 3D printing I tried to get Fusion 360 to run on Linux but I had some issues as it wouldn't accept my email address for some reason, so it refused to do anything useful at all.
So I went with FreeCAD (unwillingly at first) and, even though I now probably lack the experience to judge Fusion, I don't regret it anymore, especially not with the new version which is much more comfortable to use.
There is a learning curve to it, and perhaps Fusion is more streamlined, but using FreeCAD really is worth it for me.